{"id":123,"date":"2018-11-06T11:57:03","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T11:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/?page_id=123"},"modified":"2021-09-06T20:31:25","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T19:31:25","slug":"dan-mccarthy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/people\/dan-mccarthy\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan McCarthy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Daniel_Mccarthy9\"><strong>Dan McCarthy, PhD Speech Sciences<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nEmail: <a href=\"mailto:d.mccarthy@newcastle.ac.uk\">d.mccarthy@newcastle.ac.uk<\/a><br \/>\nWebsite: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Daniel_Mccarthy9\">https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Daniel_Mccarthy9<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/newcastle.academia.edu\/DanMcCarthy\">https:\/\/newcastle.academia.edu\/DanMcCarthy<\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>Acoustic Phonetics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff\"><em>Processing Formant Transitions to Recognize Place of Articulation<\/em>: My research aims to identify plosives&#8217; place of articulation using fewer, higher-quality features than used conventionally. There are two cues for identifying place of articulation, the formant transitions and the release burst. For the formants, I am developing a technique to shrink the number of features needed to describe formant transitions to yield new, more orthogonal features for identifying place of articulation. For the burst, I am testing a number of techniques, among them: rather than using the absolute amplitudes in frequency channels, I am weighting them by their relative information density, which results in a standard-deviation attribute that classifies place of articulation more accurately than the non-weighted equivalent.<br \/>\nOther interests: dialectology, hearing science, auditory neuroscience, evolutionary biology.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan McCarthy, PhD Speech Sciences Email: d.mccarthy@newcastle.ac.uk Website: https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Daniel_Mccarthy9 &amp; https:\/\/newcastle.academia.edu\/DanMcCarthy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6984,"featured_media":0,"parent":2,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-123","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6984"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":595,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/123\/revisions\/595"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}